Polish «Zielona Gora» is paying a return visit to «Astana»

20.01.2020, 08:00    Views: 747
Source: Press service
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The second round of the VTB United League regular season will begin for the Presidential Basketball Club “Astana” with a home match against the Polish “Zielona Gora”, which will be held on Sunday, January 26.

«Stelmet Zielona Gora» - is a Polish professional men's basketball club from the city of Zielona Gora, founded in 1946. This season, in addition to participating in VTB United League, the team is playing in the Polish Championship.

Achievements:
  • Champion of Poland — 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Polish Cup Winner — 2015, 2017
  • Poland Super Cup — 2015

Stelmet Zielona Gora 2019/2020

«Zielona Gora» is the only team that capital basketball players beat in the first round in an away game. This happened before the New Year on December 23 in Poland. Then, in a bitter struggle, the Kazakh squad snatched victory in the last seconds of the game with a score of 78:81. After that game, the Poles managed to play another 4 matches. Toward the close of 2019, «Lokomotiv-Kuban» visited «Zielona Gora», winning only 2 points. The Polish team began the New Year with a two-game series, which was very successful for them: at first a major victory over the Estonian «Kalev», and in «Yenisei «was defeated in Krasnoyarsk. «Zielona Gora» held their last game at home and lost to Kazan «UNICS».
 

Standings:  «Zielona Gora» is on the seventh place in the standings, having 6 wins and 8 losses. “Astana” loses to its future opponents only one position, settling in eighth place with 5 wins and 7 defeats.

Changes in the roster: the roster of our rivals has not changed at all from the last game.

Leaders of rivals: American center Drew Gordon is the undisputed leader of the Poles with the best statistics in the team in terms of efficiency, points, rebounds, interceptions and block shots. But in the first game between the teams, Gordon had an extremely unsuccessful game, gaining only 4 points, having spent only 8 minutes and 45 seconds on the court, and the reason for this was most likely an injury or a health problem. Thus, if Drew Gordon arrives in the capital in a good shape, he will be a big problem for our guys, requiring close attention. The Swede Ludwig Hackanson, the main point guard of the team and the Americans — forward Tony Meyer and guard Joe Tomasson, are the basis of the Polish team and constantly go out in the starting five. In the last match with the “absence” of Drew Gordon, the role of a center was taken by the Croat Ivica Radic, who then became the most effective and productive. Among the Polish players, shooting guard Jaroslav Zyskowski and guard Marcel Ponitka can be distinguished.

As you know, “Astana” plays very well at their court, while “Zielona Gora” this season, especially in the last matches, are much better away than at home. Therefore, it is expected that the match in Nur Sultan will be extremely tense and unpredictable.

The match will take place on Sunday, January 26 in Nur-Sultan at the arena of the Republican cycle track «Saryarka», beginning at 15:00 Nur-Sultan time. Online broadcast of the match will be available on our website in the Match Center section, as well as live on QazSport TV channel. Tickets for the match are already on sale at Ticketon.kz.

Detailed information about the tournament, standings, schedule and match results are published in the Tournaments section.


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